The open question is "What is the cost of fragmentation?"
The cost has some absolute components and some relative components. Since fragmentation is difficult to avoid except through grotesque over-allocation of space, the issue is to control fragmentation through normalization. A more important pair of questions, then, are these:
"How do we prevent storage fragmentation and the associated slow-down ?"
Why prevent ?
This is hard to respond to. The ounce-of-prevent-pound-of-cure didn't resonate with the reviewer. What would resonate? An in-depth discussion of the "prevention is an investment with an indefinite period of return and correction is an ongoing cost" doesn't …
more ...Perhaps this is heresy. Perhaps it merely shows that the orthodox may be focused on short-term delivery, not long-term value.
The client has a table we could describe as following the M.E.S.S. -- Multiple Entity Sub-Species -- design pattern. The hallmarks of this design are a …
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more ...The object-oriented unit testing framework began as Smalltalk's Beck Test framework http://www.xprogramming.com/testfram.htm. It evolved to the JUnit http://www.junit.org/index.htm framework for Java. Beck defined four repeated patterns of unit testing software:
The Fixture. The thing we are …
Kontrawize says http://kontrawize.blogs.com/kontrawize/2005/11/java_is_the_new.html that Java is the new assembler.
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Anthony B. Coates [Homepage ] notes "I tried Python for a while for similar reasons. However, in my case I was a bit put off by the need to learn a another library API, which is not an …
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